The document outlines requirements for a railway reservation system. The system would allow customers to view train schedules and availability, reserve tickets, pay for reservations, and cancel tickets. It describes functions for maintaining train data, the reservation process, billing, and cancellation. The system needs to be reliable, available, and secure. Development will use Visual Basic for the front end and MS Access for the back end, with approval required from the Ministry of Railways.

1. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT
SPECIFICATIONS
FOR
RAILWAY RESERVATION SYSTEM
PREPAED BY,
G.MADHAVI
REG.NO:31508205052
B.TECH I.T

2. 1. INTRODUCTION:
1.1. PURPOSE:
The purpose of this source is to describe the railway reservation system
which provides the train timing details, reservation, billing and cancellation on various
types of reservation namely,
• Confirm Reservation for confirm Seat.
• Reservation against Cancellation.
• Waiting list Reservation.
• Online Reservation.
• Tatkal Reservation.
1.2. DOCUMENT CONVENTIONS:
 Main headings: Bold
 Not applicable
1.3INTENDED AUDIENCE AND READING SUGGESTIONS:
The different types of readers are
 Customers
 Developers
 Management people
Specifically,
• Passengers
• Counter clerk
1.4DEFINITIONS, ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
• NTES – National Train Enquiry System
• IVRS – Interactive Voice Response system
• PRS – passenger reservation system
It consists of
 Train details
 Reservation form
 Billing
 Cancellation.
1.5. SCOPE
• Freight Revenue enhancement.
• Passenger Revenue enhancement.
• Improved & optimized service.
1.6REFERNCES
www.scribd.com
www.yatra.com
2.OVERALL DESCRIPTION:
2.1.PRODUCT PERSPECTIVE:
It enables us to maintain the railway train details like their timings, number
of seat available and reservation billing and cancelling the tickets.
2.1.1. USER INTERFACE:

3. Keyboard and Mouse.
2.1.2. HARDWARE INTERFACE:
 Printer
 Normal PC
2.1.3. SOFTWARE INTERFACE:
 Front end -> Visual Basic
 Back end -> MS-Access
2.1.4. COMMUNICATION INTERFACES
• Indian Railway’s web-site, www.indianrail.gov.in offers PRS enquiries
on the internet Berth/Seat availability, Passenger Status, Fare, Train
Schedule etc,.
• National Train Enquiry System (NTES) website,
www.trainenquiry.com gives dynamic information about the running
status of any train and its expected arrival/departure at any given
station.
• Mobile telephone based SMS enquiry service. A new mobile phone
based facility for rail users’ viz.,
• Country wide extension of Universal Rail Enquiry number “139”
through setting up of Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS)
2.1.5. OPERATING ENVIRONMENT:
The OS types are
 Windows NT
 Windows XP
 Windows 98
 Linux
2.1.6. MEMORY CONSTRAINTS
A maximum of 42 laces hits per day have been recorded.
2.1.7.OPERATIONS
• Any Reservation counter from 8 am to 8 pm.
• Prior to 60 days of Journey.
• One form for 6 persons only.
• Reserved ticket done through pre defined Logic.
• To save time & queues Agent is others guides.
2.2.PRODUCT FUNCTIONS:
It tells the short note about the product.
2.2.1. TRAIN DETAILS:
Customers may view the train timing at a date their name and
number of tickets.
2.2.2. RESERVATION:
After checking the number of seats available the customers
reserve the tickets.
2.2.3. BILLING:
After reserving the required amount of tickets, the customer

4. paid the amount.
2.2.4. CANCELLATION:
If the customers want to cancel the ticket, then half of the
amount paid by the customer will be refunded to him.
2.3. USER CHARACTERISTICS:
 Knowledgeable user
 No voice user
 Expert user
2.4.CONSTRAINTS
• Less than 1 sec for local transactions.
• 3 sec for network transaction.
• Capable for providing transaction for 22 hrs per day.
• Uptime of PRS is 99.5 + %.
SOFTWARE CONSTRAINTS:
• Designing -> Rational Rose
• Developing -> Visual Basic
3.SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
3.1. EXTERNAL INTERFACES
• Train Delay Alert Service.
• Booking Terminals.
• Interactive voice Response System.
• Touch Screen.
• Passengers operated Enquiry Terminals.
3.2. PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS:
It is available during all 24 hours.
• Offered through Mail express, super fast , Rajdhani & Shatabdi Trains.
About 1520 Trains runs daily.
Variety of compartments based on comfort :
• AC first class.
• AC sleeper.
• First class.
• AC three tier.
• AC chair car.
• Sleeper class
• Ordinary chair car.
Types of concerns & complexities:
• 44 types of quotas.
• 8 types of trains.
• 9 types of classes.
• 162 types of concessions.
• 127 types of bogies.

5. 3.3. SOFTWARE SYSTEM ATTRIBUTES:
 Reliable
 Available
 Secure
4.DOCUMENT APPROVAL
The bill passed on any proposals related to railway management needs approval of
Ministry of railway department.

6. 3.3. SOFTWARE SYSTEM ATTRIBUTES:
 Reliable
 Available
 Secure
4.DOCUMENT APPROVAL
The bill passed on any proposals related to railway management needs approval of
Ministry of railway department.